Alex_MJ

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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
"n00bs"?
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
His facebook doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. It's full of vague availability-heuristic-targeting generalities. "Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency equals what you wish to show your neighbor" &
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Is there some LGBT organization in the UK who could pull off publicly granting a pardon to the government for its' treatment of Alan Turing?
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
I totally agree. I've been playing around with Shopify and Merchify (similar "never touch a shirt" workflow) in the same way. For someone who mainly plays in engineering, testing ads on facebook and adwords and playing market
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Out of curiosity, do you have anything more on what destroys the lenses? Heat/melting? Some form of radioactive dust?
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
It's a two way street - they're usually dramatically downplayed by authorities and anybody who would otherwise have to pay. If you're not loud and exaggerated, nobody with any ability to do anything listens and powerful peopl
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
We already can make simple ones, it's a matter of radiation shielding. They don't have to be huge expensive humanoid ones. Robots were used in the Chernobyl cleanup 25 years ago although they ended up getting fried from the radiat
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Out of curiosity, was there anything wrong with the two handed design (like intrinsically/ergonomically, not wiring-related) that caused you to switch back to a one-piece design after the Mark 9? I've been wanting for years for th
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Given that he doesn't seem like a soup-kitchen kind of guy (from reading his Medium), why not take a new approach where you try one thing, understand one person in depth, see what you can do, and work from there? That's how you le
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
From your perspective, what should McConlogue do or have done differently? He's obviously going to benefit from the exposure but I don't see any evidence that he's throwing Leo under the bus in the process. It seems like a mu
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Thank you! Almost forgot that we shouldn't spend time teaching willing people in rough situations useful things because it's narcissistic and patronizing. I appreciate your reminder that the correct approach is to keep a safe dist
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
A lot of it is also the mental structures you form, so you understand what a computer can and can't do easily instead of thinking it's all magic. You may not have the specific chops to write a program to do it, but you know that d
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
This is doable, and it's done in the natural gas turbine world (look up combined cycle turbine, essentially you hook up a lower-power steam turbine to the exhaust of a natural gas turbine). The main problem is that turbines are expensi
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Also, the longer tube you build the less effective the system becomes because the pressure at the top has to move the entire column of [viscous, turbulent] air down the pipe. I haven't done any math on this but I'd imagine it woul
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
There's less energy in the wind after it leaves the turbine (by necessity, energy is transferred into the turbine to make it turn). If you were to expand the air moving at 15mph to the same size as the inlet its' velocity would de
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
If hackernews was called "bored programmer" I would be reminded I was bored every time I visited. From a marketing standpoint, sounding cool and compelling is a thousand times more important than being literal and accurate. My fir
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by Alex_MJ 13y ago
Agreed. Also, in the name of "understand your market" - what did early HN readers get from reading HN that they wouldn't elsewhere and how does that translate to finance? Would HN be successful if some random dude had started
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by Alex_MJ 14y ago
Optimal Founder/CEO != Optimal Employee
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by Alex_MJ 14y ago
I love Meditations. I actually use it as a journalling tool. I have about four copies of Meditations sitting on my bookshelf. What I really enjoy about reading it is that at any point, I can pore through a chapter, find something that "hits